Love Does Not Need Pockets

I’ve been absent… again! Despite promises made to myself, resolutions have been falling by the wayside like summer rain… But I’ve been consumed by life and work, and I’m working on something important, something challenging and life-changing, and incidentally longer than War & Peace. A beautiful line in that work stopped me in my tracks yesterday: ‘Love, though, does not need pockets.’ It was in the context of a discussion on the hunt for happiness and meaning, which so resonated with the philosophy here of making the right mark on the wall of the world that it sparked the poet within. So this is just a wee call out from the darkness to let you know that I’m still here, and soon I’ll be back in force. But here’s the piece of poetry in the meantime…

Nice to have yo back Sarah. Beautiful poem and idea. I’d pretty much abandoned my poetry when I took up novel writing, but have occasionally wrote a few. I miss it and enjoy it, but don’t know where it fits in my world or social media, marketing, and novel writing.

A lovely, touching poem, Sara. I’m always happy to see you returned, no matter how brief the moment. My first, true novel rivaled War and Peace in scope, though not quality. I learned a lot in the process, a lot about writing and a lot about me. 🙂